From a3d6ca04065a8e0e93a353f21f39b808ef5bee0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 00:28:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] =?utf8?q?docs:=20incomplete=20beginnings=20of=20a=20NEWS?= =?utf8?q?=20update=20for=20v1.8=CE=B2?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- NEWS | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 11734e85..93953657 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,11 +1,24 @@ User visible changes in Tahoe-LAFS. -*- outline; coding: utf-8 -*- -* Release 1.8.0α (2010-07-31) +* Release 1.8.0β (2010-08-02) + +** New Features + + - A completely new downloader which improves performance and + robustness of downloads. It automatically fails over to alternate + servers if the servers that it is using fail or become too slow. It + also minimizes unnecessary round trips and unnecessary bytes + transferred to improve performance. (#798, #800, #990) +XXX any other tickets? #809, #287, #447? + - The command-line now works on 64-bit Windows and now handles + non-ASCII command-line arguments and non-ASCII outputs on all + versions of Windows. (#1074) ** Bugfixes and Improvements - Fix bug in WUI in Python 2.5 when the system clock is set back to 1969. (#1055) + - Many internal improvements in code organization, tests, logging, etc. (#1074, #1121 XXX YYY * Release 1.7.1 (2010-07-18) -- 2.45.2